For thirty years I have unfailingly lifted dark clouds by recalling a remark of Auden:
"English and German are the languages of heaven, and French is the language of hell, because the French people annoyed God in the first place by calling him Cher MaƮtre."
An NYRB cover
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Adolfo Bioy Casares, *Asleep in the Sun*, trans. Suzanne Jill Levine (New
York: New York Review Books, 2004).
The cover is a detail of a William Wegman ph...
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